Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 18, 1995 TAG: 9510180084
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - Senate supporters of term limits failed Tuesday in an effort to put the chamber on record as favoring a constitutional amendment limiting how long lawmakers can serve.
In a test vote forced by Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., the Senate decided 49-45 to reject a nonbinding ``sense of the Senate'' measure that said the body should pass a constitutional amendment limiting members' terms.
Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., voted to reject the measure; Sen. John Warner, R-Va., voted in favor of the measure.
The campaign for term limits has already been set back in the House, which voted 227-204 in March to limit lawmakers to 12 years' consecutive service in each chamber. That fell more than 60 votes shy of the two-thirds needed to approve a constitutional amendment.
- Associated Press
Health care for Gulf vets extended
WASHINGTON - The House voted Tuesday to extend through 1998 the government's obligation to provide priority health care to Persian Gulf War veterans with ailments possibly related to service in the 1990-91 conflict.
On a 403-0 vote, the lawmakers passed a bill that also would extend until the end of 1997 Veterans Affairs programs for alcohol and drug abuse, nursing home care alternatives and homeless veterans.
- Associated Press
Air bag implicated in 5-year-old's death
SALT LAKE CITY - An autopsy has implicated an air bag in the death of a 5-year-old boy who broke his neck when his grandmother's car bumped into a concrete planter box in a parking lot.
The dual air bags inflated in the Oct. 10 accident, twisting Jordan West's head, said Val Wilson, North Salt Lake police chief. Medical examiners said ``the air bag definitely had a cause in the death,'' Wilson said Monday.
- Associated Press
Dole: Returning funds was mistake
WASHINGTON - Reversing course, Sen. Bob Dole said Tuesday it was a mistake for his presidential campaign to return a $1,000 contribution from a gay Republican group. He blamed his campaign for not clearing the decision with him.
``I think if they had consulted me they wouldn't have done that,'' the Senate majority leader said. ``I just didn't agree with what happened.''
Dole previously had defended his campaign's August decision to return a contribution from the Log Cabin Republicans.
- Associated Press
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